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you are obviously keen to find out more about how you can help yourself or your friend and perhaps get some advice and a plan for how to improve things. Well, youre in the right place.
Contents:
p2: Introduction p3: What does it mean? p4: Deliberate or accidental p5: Sharing pictures p6: All about trust p9: Where might your picture be? p10: What should I do first? p11: Who can help me? p12: Knowing about reputation p13: Organisations that can help p14: About this resource
However, this isnt helping yet, so lets crack on. You dont have to read this whole thing through but it does help to browse each section to get a really good understanding of how and why this stuff causes problems. The more clued-up you are, the better decisions you are going to make for yourself (or friend).
Knowledge is power
The accidental stuff happens once it has left your control, but more about this later.
LOL or OMG?!
People sharing naked pictures as part of a safe relationship is not a new thing.
What has changed though is the speed with which you can share. Using webcams or sending mobile pictures can be a spontaneous decision, made without thinking about what could happen and what people might think. Once the picture leaves your control it can easily and quickly be shared with many people.
A recent study by the Internet Watch Foundation showed that up to 88% of self-generated images have been collected and put onto other sites!
In your parents younger years, the embarrassing stuff they did was rarely seen by anyone else. Today with mobile phones and the web that has changed. The World Wide Web means the potential of a huge audience and of course, if a photo is uploaded and shared, it can be on there forever. Pretty scary thought that something stupid you do at 14 can still potentially affect your adult life.
This is not the end of the world. It just needs some thought on how you can minimise the effect of your mistake.
Was I right to have trusted the person to whom I sent it? Was I being naive?
Most of the time, these intimate pictures are shared between boyfriend and girlfriend, and lets be honest, you wouldnt send them if you didnt trust the other person would you? There are probably many images shared which never leave the intended recipient, even when the relationship ends. So ask yourself, if we break up, will this person respect me enough not to share my pictures? How well do you really know them? Sadly, it is often only when we split up with someone that we see their true colours.
Posting directly to social networks makes it harder to regain that control. Networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram are designed to make publishing and sharing quick; the software makes those connections for you... and thats the trouble. Its hard to know where the image has gone and who has got it. It can very quickly leave your social circle and spread to others. Its important to understand the different ways in which you contact and report to social network sites to request removal of content. Its not enough just to say I dont like it. Your request needs to show that it breaks the sites terms and conditions. It is also important to understand how you yourself can change or remove content that you have posted about which you have changed your mind. That profile pic of you in your underwear was funny at the time but ... Its important in life to have friends around you that you can trust and on whom you can rely; this is no different online. Its less likely your close friends would want to do anything serious to hurt you; very often theyre the first ones you might turn to for help.
Lets use them to help put out the messages we want and recover the situation where they can.
Thats why it is important to think carefully about your social network friends lists and ask yourself Who would stand beside me when things go wrong? What is your definition of a friend or a friend of a friend? We often add friends because our other friends know them. In reality the person may have been passed on through lots of lists like this. If they have, then this makes it more difficult to track who has seen a naked picture you may have posted, as it has spread across groups you dont belong to. It may even be public which could mean literally anyone on the internet could see it. There are ways in which you can choose who sees what on your profile (privacy settings) and this might be something you would want to get up to speed with after the incident to reduce the chances of it happening again.
Photo sharing sites like Flickr or Instagram allow open and unrestricted (as well as private) sharing of pictures. Again your data could be on companys servers or copied to users personal devices. Webcam sharing sites can also cause problems when people record your actions. Sites like Omegle and Chat roulette often attract criminal elements. Sometimes these anonymous services encourage people to be more adventurous and risky, but being online is never completely anonymous. It only takes screen or webcam capture software to end up with a video clip. Online Groups and Communities also often contain sex offenders who will form close knit groups and share indecent images (many of which they will obtain from the web). Cloud storage sites like iCloud, SkyDrive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox or Rackspace allow server space for people to store material such as images. Other users with permission can then access the files. Once again it is difficult to know where your content actually sits and where the cloud servers are based. Those that are based outside of the UK or European Union often dont have the same strict laws about personal data that we have and your content could be sold and shared with other networks across the world.
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Parents It may be your worst nightmare thinking of telling your parents you shared intimate pictures, and yes, they may kick off at first but they need to know; how are they going to support you if they dont know? Use your discretion, if you dont think the pictures will go viral, then dont upset them for no reason. If you feel there is a risk, or if your picture has already been shared, then you need them on board. Yes, they will probably be very upset and disappointed, but theyll get over it! And will probably respect you more for being upfront about it...
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Be prepared to explain:
As a final note, you should be prepared to explain the following things..
Ive made a mistake Ive been really stupid I have learnt by it I have moved on
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The resource will be available shortly in the following alternative formats: A printed resource A comic book style summary of key advice for young people Online interactive web resource as part of the UK Safer Internet Centre web collateral
It is produced by the South West Grid for Learning and UK Safer Internet Centre and co-funded by the European Union.
The South West Grid for Learning is a not for profit, charitable trust company, providing schools and many other educational establishments throughout the region with safe, secure and reliable broadband internet connectivity; broadbandenabled learning resources and services and help, support and advice in using the internet safely. Find more resources at www.swgfl.org.uk.
SWGfL 2012